Hi there, i downloaded mixcraft 6 trial and fell in love with it so i purchased the 60 day extension(plan on going PRO for christmas ), anyways since ive been messing around with all the different vst ive noticed that i can choose acoustica studio drums from the vst instrument list, but there isnt any edit option, sounds or kits to choose from. I see the dll in the vst folder but for some reason mixcraft cant see it. Please help, i need drums!!

Also if you click on the "Musical Typing" option (this is available in the same dialogue that you used to select studio drums) you can use the keyboard to tap in the drums. If you have an external MIDI keyboard you can also use that.

You might be interested in downloading some MIDI drum patterns - for example the people at www.oddgrooves.com have a load of free General Midi drum patterns that work fine with studio drums. You can use them as starting points and then edit the patterns using the method that Trevor mentions.

To use them you just load the MIDI pattern into a track and then make sure that the instrument on that track is set to Studio drums.

What you describe is normal. There is no edit button because there is no GUI for this instrument. Mixcraft itself is your interface for Studio Drums.

Go back to track view and double click on the beginning of the track. The sound tab opens with the piano roll setup with a template for the drums. You can use the virtual keyboard function, a midi keyboard or controller, etc to input MIDI data.

If memory serves, he is using the omni sampler in that video and adding the drum sounds as samples.
you select the omni sampler instead of the studio drums then add the drum sounds via the edit button.

I'm tried using 0:0 studio drum kit just like in the video.......but I did try all of them in drop down menu and the same thing...nothing...if you see in my screen capture in the above post you can see which preset was selected...

I think maybe the Sound Tab is where you gotta go? Add the Studio Drums VSTi as you do, doubleclick in the track to create a clip, select it, and go to the Sound Tab.

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